Block XP from the internet
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Likewise you can use VirtualBox and enable the Oracle extensions and RDP directly to XP without needing to touch the box that it is on! Then you can virtualized on any windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris system.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@Dashrender said:
convert it to XP mode on a Windows 7 machine and remove it's network access from the VM. Then you can RDP into the windows 7 machine, launch the XP machine and you're good to go.
Uber nerd way to go and great idea!
Thanks, this made my day!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Likewise you can use VirtualBox and enable the Oracle extensions and RDP directly to XP without needing to touch the box that it is on! Then you can virtualized on any windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris system.
How does this keep XP off the internet?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Likewise you can use VirtualBox and enable the Oracle extensions and RDP directly to XP without needing to touch the box that it is on! Then you can virtualized on any windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris system.
How does this keep XP off the internet?
By not having it plumbed with networking, same as your solution
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Likewise you can use VirtualBox and enable the Oracle extensions and RDP directly to XP without needing to touch the box that it is on! Then you can virtualized on any windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris system.
How does this keep XP off the internet?
By not having it plumbed with networking, same as your solution
What are you RDPing too? the virtualbox software itself?
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@Dashrender said:
What are you RDPing too? the virtualbox software itself?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
What are you RDPing too? the virtualbox software itself?
did you phone blank out on you?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
What are you RDPing too? the virtualbox software itself?
did you phone blank out on you?
Must have.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
What are you RDPing too? the virtualbox software itself?
Yes. VB has RDP built in from the Oracle extensions. Without the extensions you can use VNC.
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Dash, that was my 2nd solution (W7 XP Mode), however 1st solution was to update the software and move it to existing W7 PC.
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Other great ideas out there, however the client is looking for cheap. So either i disable the PC from accessing the internet or she brings in a monitor and uses the PC off the network. Sometimes my extremely small business stress me out!
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@technobabble said:
Other great ideas out there, however the client is looking for cheap. So either i disable the PC from accessing the internet or she brings in a monitor and uses the PC off the network. Sometimes my extremely small business stress me out!
VirtualBox is free
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@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
Other great ideas out there, however the client is looking for cheap. So either i disable the PC from accessing the internet or she brings in a monitor and uses the PC off the network. Sometimes my extremely small business stress me out!
VirtualBox is free
It sounds like they don't want to buy Windows 7 for that computer they don't want to replace the computer, in either case no money spent on acquiring stuff.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
Other great ideas out there, however the client is looking for cheap. So either i disable the PC from accessing the internet or she brings in a monitor and uses the PC off the network. Sometimes my extremely small business stress me out!
VirtualBox is free
It sounds like they don't want to buy Windows 7 for that computer they don't want to replace the computer, in either case no money spent on acquiring stuff.
VirtualBox is completely free. Doesn't require Windows.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
Other great ideas out there, however the client is looking for cheap. So either i disable the PC from accessing the internet or she brings in a monitor and uses the PC off the network. Sometimes my extremely small business stress me out!
VirtualBox is free
It sounds like they don't want to buy Windows 7 for that computer they don't want to replace the computer, in either case no money spent on acquiring stuff.
VirtualBox is completely free. Doesn't require Windows.
duh.. he could install Virtualbox on Linux (it is a type 2 hypervisor still, right?) then he could put that linux box online, RDP or VNC into it.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
Other great ideas out there, however the client is looking for cheap. So either i disable the PC from accessing the internet or she brings in a monitor and uses the PC off the network. Sometimes my extremely small business stress me out!
VirtualBox is free
It sounds like they don't want to buy Windows 7 for that computer they don't want to replace the computer, in either case no money spent on acquiring stuff.
VirtualBox is completely free. Doesn't require Windows.
duh.. he could install Virtualbox on Linux (it is a type 2 hypervisor still, right?) then he could put that linux box online, RDP or VNC into it.
Yes, Linux (I put that a few posts up too
VirtualBox will always be Type 2, there are more than enough Type 1s, but VB is the leading Type 2.And the RDP is directly to VirtualBox, not to Linux, so no need to access Linux at all once it is set up. Very sweet setup.
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Whatever you do, don't open up RDP from the Internet at large to the XP box. As future vulnerabilities get patched on Vista and newer, they won't be on XP, leaving that system prone to attack.
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@Nara said:
Whatever you do, don't open up RDP from the Internet at large to the XP box. As future vulnerabilities get patched on Vista and newer, they won't be on XP, leaving that system prone to attack.
Definitely. RDP really needs to be well patched.
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RDP does have its own security and for the most part is fine to use, especially for SMBs. It's not that the connection is not secure but that the identity of the RD Session Host server is not verified in the base protocol. And extra security is not that hard to do:
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I appreciate all the information folks. I knew there was many virtual ways to do this, including moving the program and data to the W7 PC using XP Mode.
However when I say cheap, they have budgeted less than $60 which was why I was looking to block access to the internet from the XP box. They have already been using RDP to access the program on the XP PC via the local network for the last 2 years.
